Extremely Religious (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He said that they were extremely religious but what did that mean, with many gods, many idols, all graven images, ...
He said that they were extremely religious but what did that mean, with many gods, many idols, all graven images, ...
He leapt from the hand of Peter his legs no longer lame, strong to let him jump, to shout for ...
We forget, in our reverence the roles of the apostles, the saints We forget Jesus the carpenter, Peter the fisherman, ...
An attitude of prayer, of reverence as when we enter worship the sanctuary on Sunday A prayer that you will ...
Out of love, reverence, in faith and in hope, turning our lives to God, to the risen Christ, we give ...
Avoiding the massacre the killing of the innocents the one life spared; flight to Egypt The life of the one, ...
Amid the name of triumph Of love, of caring, the names of the king Were other names, troubling, incongruous, jarring ...
We stand, we all stand, naked before God, exposed as surely as they were in the Garden, after the fall ...
A different walk now on Turtle Island, her people's name for this land of my ancestors too generations long past; ...
A quiet cold woods, crunch of ice and snow under the snowshoes, hear the ski pole pierce the skin of ...
At 1:00 in the morning on a moonlit, starlit night in northern Maine, in the Allagash Wilderness silent strangers, worked ...
There is something rare something grand something right about the graves of New Orleans not hidden flat stones carved names ...
Can you picture the scene - a bush with living fire dancing on the skin of the leaves A fire ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
When thou dost eat from off this plate, I charge thee be thou temperate; Unto thine elders at the board ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
He'd spent his life trying to control the names people gave him; oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our ...
Because gods perceive future things, men what is happening now, but wise men perceive approaching things. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
THOU whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these ...
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